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Sahara Solar Scheme Could Power Poor West AfricaAccra, Ghana - West African legislators worried by climate change and soaring energy costs want regional leaders to back plans to harness sun and wind energy that experts say could bring electricity to some of the poorest people on earth. |
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Niger scrub becomes last sanctuary for giraffe herdsKoure, Niger - The last West African giraffes have found a refuge in the acacia scrub just one hour's drive outside Niger's capital Niamey. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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How Tuaregs, Hausas Are Avoiding Another DarfurKup-Kup, Niger - On the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert herders and farmers with a bitter history of fighting over dwindling resources are now working together to stop a common enemy: the desert's increasingly rapid advance. |
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More crops for Africa as trees reclaim the desertSahel Region - For once there is some good news from Africa. Farmers are reclaiming the desert, turning the barren wastelands of the Sahel region on the Sahara's southern edge into green, productive farmland. |
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WEST AFRICA: Tandja wins new ECOWAS mandateNiamey, Niger - President Mamadou Tandja of Niger has been re-elected chairman of the West African regional group ECOWAS at a summit where leaders pledged strides in bolstering peace across the world?s poorest region. |
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Funds at last coming in for hunger-racked Niger, but more still needed - UNNiger - Only days after doubling its emergency appeal for Niger, where 2.5 million people face a hunger crisis and thousands of children have already died, the United Nations will again increase the amount it is seeking, but at last funds are coming in after a long period of neglected warnings, the top UN relief coordinator said today. |
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news from Africa
- Sahara Solar Scheme Could Power Poor West Africa
- A ‘miracle tree’ that could feed sub-Saharan Africa
- Egypt desert tourists freed after three-day ordeal
- Looted Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia
- Ghana, EU clinch deal to crackdown on illicit timber trade
- Ghana’s grass-roots bid to save country’s last forests
- Italy apologises to Libya for colonial era damage
- Little robin from Gabon is world’s newest species
- Human rights outlook in Togo is improving, UN and African experts say
- Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry
